Fendt is not just a brand!

It’s a lifestyle! The Russian farmers had a chance to see this for themselves in the course of their visit to Fendt factory – the world’s most innovative tractor manufacturing facility in Germany – arranged by AgroCentre.

For Fedor Palachev, Director of Muchkap-Niva (Tambov oblast), this was the sixth visit to international farming trade shows and machinery manufacturing facilities with AgroCentre. The farmer admitted, he thought he had already seen all the most advanced technologies. The visit proved him wrong. Fedor was not just surprised at the Fendt production facility – he was completely conquered by its efficiency!

‘The Fendt engineering centre is not just a factory, it is a real “tractorland”’, says Fedor. ‘I was impressed with the production scale and the well-thought-out organisation of all sequences. Watching a tractor being assembled is pure joy! Everything is performed efficiently, without any fuss. Every day, 65 tractors roll off the assembly line and go for a test-drive right away. In fact, our group and myself were the first to test-drive the new Fendt 1000 Series tractor with a capacity of 500 hp. The machine is fantastic! As soon as you get behind the wheel, you feel the incredible strength and power! I was also captivated by the perfect order and pristine cleanliness in all the workshops. I got the impression that they produce jewellery, not tractors. I’m very grateful to AgroCentre for letting us see the Fendt world with our own eyes. I have been looking closely into this machinery for quite a while now. The trip has cemented my desire to buy a tractor of this brand for my farm’.

Indeed, the Fendt factory is a whole laboratory for development of the legendary heavy-duty tractors regarded as premium-class machinery all over the world. A few years ago, AGCO doubled its production capacity. All the processes, IT-systems and essential elements of the production technology and logistics were reassessed and optimised. All the production shops were automated. Over 60% of all the operations are robot-aided. The factory produces a wide range of machines: from mini-tractors to machines with a capacity of 500 hp. Each tractor consists of about 10,000 details on average. All the pipes and profiled metal sheets are handled with the use of the ultra-modern technologies such as CNC or five-axial laser cutting machines.

The automated small parts storage system (AKL) ensures prompt access to the required item. The storage facility is exceptionally well organised: more than 26,800 storage spaces are available for mini-load carriers on only 400 sq. m with eight-metre-high shelves. The average throughput of the shelving machines reaches 125 storage and retrieval procedures per hour! The logistics processes are managed via the intelligent SAP software.

‘The wide lineup of the Fendt tractors and numerous customisation options allow the tractors to be individually adapted to meet the farmers’ specific requirements’, says Nikolay Kunitsyn, Head of Sales Department of AgroCentreLiski. ‘Just-in-time and just-in-sequence concepts ensure perfectly timed delivery, ruling out any possible delays.’